Hard to reproduce pickaxe disappearing bug

[kevin_0756]

This is my 4th playthrough of Archolos over the last 3 years and I noticed that an issue which bothered me back in the day still persists even today. Sometimes the pickaxe in the inventory simply vanishes without any rhyme or reason. Just to be clear, I am not talking about pickaxes having a limited durability in the Araxos gold mine. I am meeting this bug when normally free roaming in the game world.

This time around I had 3 spare pickaxes with me besides the one I was using. I loaded up the game this evening and decided to mine some silver after slaying those 3 sleeping shadowbeasts in the cave near the rogue guards hideout. Lo and behold, my pickaxes are gone and I cannot mine anything. I remember this happening at least a dozen times in the past. To be fair, I am not sure if this is a bug or a feature related to pickaxe durability. But it sounds like the former to me. Also IIRC, this can also happen to woodcutter axes every now and then. However I was unable to reproduce this issue with the axes in my recent playthrough

[Sverr]

I've never had such problem with pickaxes, but I am well too familiar with the woodcutter's axe problem.
The only thing I can think of is that when you have several pickaxes, sometimes they can merge into a single stack with a number underneath. But they work as a single pickaxe and if you sell it, you'll sell the whole stack at once for the price of a single item. There is a way to unstack weapons and it should be somewhere in the discussions or maybe in the faq.

But if your pickaxes simply disappear in the main hub, then I don't know how this could be.

[TheRealL]

According to the devs (on discord) its a bug with skipping dialogue too fast while mining/cutting wood/fishing and the gothic engine.

If your pickaxes are all on one stack, the whole stack is gone.

To unstick pickaxes and other normaly unstacked items you have to put the stack in a container like a chest and then loot them one by one via clicking and not as one stack via alt(?)

[kevin_0756]

Originally posted by TheRealL:

According to the devs (on discord) its a bug with skipping dialogue too fast while mining/cutting wood/fishing and the gothic engine.

If your pickaxes are all on one stack, the whole stack is gone.

To unstick pickaxes and other normaly unstacked items you have to put the stack in a container like a chest and then loot them one by one via clicking and not as one stack via alt(?)

My pickaxes were not in a stack when I faced this bug. Ironically my woodcutter axes were in a stack, but they have not (yet) disappeared. But thanks for the tip. I will keep an eye on my tools every time I finish prospecting. Also I am pretty sure that I did not accidentally trade my pickaxes. Yes, what you mentioned seems to be the case. It could be a bug related to the Gothic engine. This couldn't be reproduced in NoTR because the dialog wouldn't allow us to rapidly exit. Probably this is why the issue was not spotted by the original developers who wrote the engine

[TheRealL]

Hm, if all three pickaxes were gone and not in a single stack, it might be another bug.
If you still have that savegame please upload it to the discord for someone to take a look at it.

In notr younhave to disable the fading effect in the dialogue window to be able to spam mining.
Unfortunately im not near my computer and cant take a look at how thats done. It was something in one of the inis...

[kevin_0756]

Originally posted by TheRealL:

Hm, if all three pickaxes were gone and not in a single stack, it might be another bug.
If you still have that savegame please upload it to the discord for someone to take a look at it.

In notr younhave to disable the fading effect in the dialogue window to be able to spam mining.
Unfortunately im not near my computer and cant take a look at how thats done. It was something in one of the inis...

Unfortunately I have overwritten the save file. I have bought 2 new pickaxes. They initially occupied separate slots in my inventory. But now they have stacked. So will keep an eye on them

[TheRealL]

See my first comment for how to unstick them.
Better safe than sorry ;-)

[yanzukmjy]

Hello all. I just started playing this last month and had my pickaxes constantly disappearing. It appears that having Val-Brychs pickaxe in my inventory was causing the issue. After removing it I never had another normal pickaxe leave my inventory

[X4vv]

ValBrychs pickaxe has nothing to do with the bug
It is purely your behaviour during animations that use pickaxe like trying to skip some part of the animation to end it faster, to regain control of the character